9:30 a.m. - HHS Secretary Thompson will join Rev. Cortés at a news conference to announce Pacto de Esperanza (Pledge of Hope), the first national HIV/AIDS education initiative targeted toward the Hispanic faith community. (Several Hispanic clergy members who have signed the pact will join Thompson and Cortés at the press conference.)

EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a conference on Educational Freedom and Urban America: Brown v. Board After Half a Century. As we are approach the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's monumental decision, Brown v. Board of Education. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court's landmark ruling struck down segregated public schooling. As the court wrote: "We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."

EVENT: NORTHERN VIRGINIA TECHNOLOGY COUCIL Titans of Technology Breakfast program features John W. Snow, Secretary, U.S. Department of Treasury discussing the President's economic package, including the dividends proposal, his views on corporate governance issues and how they relate to the economy, and sharing his analysis of short-term and long-term prospects for the technology sector.

DATE: May 15, 2003

LOCATION: Hilton-McLean, 7920 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, VA

CONTACT: 703-904-7878

WEB ADDRESS: nvtc.org

TIME: 8 a.m.

EVENT: GERMAN AMERICAN BUSINESS COUNCIL holds a breakfast discussion with Ambassador Dr. Guenter Burghardt, the Head of the European Commission in Washington, DC addressing " EU-U.S. Relations: A Transatlantic Update."

DATE: May 15, 2003

LOCATION: Westin Embassy Row Hotel, Washington, D.C.

CONTACT: 202-332-7700

TIME: 8 a.m.

EVENT: WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL TRADE ASSOCIATION holds a program on Coming Out of the Closet: The End of Textile & Apparel Quotas in 2005.

AGENDA: Highlight:

WHO: The speakers are:

Jim Leonard, Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements;

EVENT: DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP COUNCIL holds a strategy session of almost 60 state and local New Democrat elected officials to get their "outside the Beltway" views on the New Democrat movement, its ideas and the direction of Democratic politics.

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Democracy and Moderation in an Islamic Society: The Case of Turkey with Binnaz Toprak is a professor of political science at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, and author of works such as 'Islam and Political Development in Turkey' and 'Islam and the Secular State in Turkey.

EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a book forum on Japan's Nevermending Story: Sidelining of Foreign Journalists and Critics

With Ivan P. Hall, author, Bamboozled!: How America loses the Intellectual Game with Japan and its Implications for our Future in Asia Author, Cartels of the Mind: Japan's Intellectual Closed Shop.

DATE: May 15, 2003

LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901

WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net

TIME: 12:30 p.m.

EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Robert Barnett, who has represented President Bill Clinton and Bob Dole in negotiating their contracts for their weekly debate on 60 Minutes. Barnett is one of the premier author representatives in the world!

DATE: May 15, 2003

LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-232-7363

WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org

TIME: 1 p.m.

EVENT: PEW CENTER ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE holds a news conference to release two reports examining Options for a Mandatory GHG Reduction Program

EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a conference on City Development Strategies: Opportunities for Poverty Reduction. The seminar will focus on four case studies (Kigali, Rwanda; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Recife, Brazil; and Tetouan, Morocco) and will highlight the difficulties of developing the CDS and the obstacles to effective implementation of each City Development Strategies.

EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled Beyond Terrorism: The Future Of U.S. Relations With Pakistan featuring Khurshid M. Kasuri, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

DATE: May 15, 2003

LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-675-1752

WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org

TIME: 3 p.m.

EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents James Risen, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the New York Times, and Milt Bearden, former CIA station chief in Pakistan, will discuss their recently published book entitled The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB on the last days of the clandestine war between the CIA and KGB.

EVENT: ASIA SOCIETY AND THE PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION hold a lecture on "SARS: What is it? What Is Its Impact?"

WHO: The speakers are:

Dr. Marlo Libel of the Pan American Health Organization, the local office of the World Health Organization, will discuss the epidemiology of SARS and provide a perspective on the potential for controlling and conquering the disease.

Murray Hiebert, Washington bureau chief for the Far Eastern Economic Review, which has covered the crisis intensively, will give an overview of its economic and political impact.

EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES The Pew International Journalism Program holds a conference entitled "New Eyes, New Voices: A New Generation Looks at War, Peace and International News."

AGENDA: Highlights:

4:30 p.m. - Opening of "Eyes on the World," an exhibit of photographs by Pew Fellows in International Journalism 1998 – 2003

Child rape in South Africa. Aired on PBS's "NOW Wient of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, Nihad Awad, co-founder and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Azizah al-Hibri, professor at the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond

DATE: May 15, 2003

LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-663-5626

WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org

TIME: 5 p.m.

EVENT: CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE holds a discussion and presentation on The Future of Russian Business in Global Markets featuring Vladimir Potanin, president, of Interros, one Russia's largest privately held companies.

EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Roger Angell discussing and signing copies of Game Time: A Baseball Companion. The great New Yorker writer has collected some of his favorite pieces written over forty-plus years. The book is organized around the seasons of the game-from spring training in 1962 to the 2002 World Series-and includes profiles of stars from Bob Gibson to Barry Bonds.

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